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On the Move, Website Migrations Debunked

Migrations are a thing we have to do sometimes but dread doing. You ask yourself before, will it go okay? You think later, did I forget anything?

In this talk I’m going to give you some key insights into migrating information from WordPress.com to a WordPress.org self-hosted site. After we’ll discuss the details of migrating a production web site from one host to another. I’ll give you the tools to test the migration before completely flipping the switch. Lastly, we’ll talk about when you want to migrate content from a development copy of the site over to your production site.

14.
Doing the migration
• Login to old host and download the WordPress site and
export MySQL database
• Login to new host and create a MySQL database
• Change wp-config.php locally within the WordPress
installation files
• Upload the WordPress site onto the new host and import
MySQL database
• Change Site URL and Site Path within the database
• Change your hosts file and test the site
• Change the DNS and wait
July 15, 2017WPCampus 2017 | https://www.jpurpleman.ca

17.
Doing the migration
• Login to old host and download the WordPress site and export
MySQL database
• Login to new host and create a MySQL database
• Change wp-config.php locally within the WordPress
installation files
• Upload the WordPress site onto the new host and import
MySQL database
• Change Site URL and Site Path within the database
• Change your hosts file
• Check your site on the new host for errors
• Change the DNS and wait
July 15, 2017WPCampus 2017 | https://www.jpurpleman.ca

24.
Doing the migration
• Login to old host and download the WordPress site and export
MySQL database
• Login to new host and create a MySQL database
• Change wp-config.php locally within the WordPress
installation files
• Upload the WordPress site onto the new host and import
MySQL database
• Change Site URL and Site Path within the database
• Change your hosts file
• Check your site on the new host for errors
• Change the DNS and wait
July 15, 2017WPCampus 2017 | https://www.jpurpleman.ca

29.
Doing the migration
• Login to old host and download the WordPress site and export
MySQL database
• Login to new host and create a MySQL database
• Change wp-config.php locally within the WordPress
installation files
• Upload the WordPress site onto the new host and import
MySQL database
• Change Site URL and Site Path within the database
• Change your hosts file
• Check your site on the new host for errors
• Change the DNS and wait
July 15, 2017WPCampus 2017 | https://www.jpurpleman.ca

31.
Doing the migration
• Login to old host and download the WordPress site and export
MySQL database
• Login to new host and create a MySQL database
• Change wp-config.php locally within the WordPress
installation files
• Upload the WordPress site onto the new host and import
MySQL database
• Change Site URL and Site Path within the database
• Change your hosts file
• Check your site on the new host for errors
• Change the DNS and wait
July 15, 2017WPCampus 2017 | https://www.jpurpleman.ca

34.
Doing the migration
• Login to old host and download the WordPress site and export
MySQL database
• Login to new host and create a MySQL database
• Change wp-config.php locally within the WordPress
installation files
• Upload the WordPress site onto the new host and import
MySQL database
• Change Site URL and Site Path within the database
• Change your hosts file
• Check your site on the new host for errors
• Change the DNS and wait
July 15, 2017WPCampus 2017 | https://www.jpurpleman.ca

39.
Doing the migration
• Login to old host and download the WordPress site and export
MySQL database
• Login to new host and create a MySQL database
• Change wp-config.php locally within the WordPress
installation files
• Upload the WordPress site onto the new host and import
MySQL database
• Change Site URL and Site Path within the database
• Change your hosts file
• Check your site on the new host for errors
• Change the DNS and wait
July 15, 2017WPCampus 2017 | https://www.jpurpleman.ca

43.
Doing the migration
• Login to old host and download the WordPress site and export
MySQL database
• Login to new host and create a MySQL database
• Change wp-config.php locally within the WordPress
installation files
• Upload the WordPress site onto the new host and import
MySQL database
• Change Site URL and Site Path within the database
• Change your hosts file
• Check your site on the new host for errors
• Change the DNS and wait
July 15, 2017WPCampus 2017 | https://www.jpurpleman.ca

46.
Doing the migration
• Login to old host and download the WordPress site and export
MySQL database
• Login to new host and create a MySQL database
• Change wp-config.php locally within the WordPress
installation files
• Upload the WordPress site onto the new host and import
MySQL database
• Change Site URL and Site Path within the database
• Change your hosts file
• Check your site on the new host for errors
• Change the DNS and wait
July 15, 2017WPCampus 2017 | https://www.jpurpleman.ca